New Dem master plan for North Dakota: Let’s nominate a guy even further left than Byron Dorgan

posted at 5:23 pm on January 6, 2010 by Allahpundit

Via Newsbusters, an idea even more insane than Chris Dodd for Treasury. Help me figure this out: Dorgan, a three-term incumbent, was getting crushed in early polls thanks in part to the political toxicity of ObamaCare, so the state party’s answer is to nominate … an ObamaCare booster who thinks Chris Matthews isn’t sufficiently liberal? I’ve been thinking about it since this morning and can’t come up with an explanation. Yeah, Schultz is a native North Dakotan and probably has higher name recognition than the average Democratic schmoe there, but how is that some game-changing asset in a red state? My theory: They know they’re going to lose badly and need a sacrificial lamb, and they figure Schultz might offer himself to the knife in return for all the free media it’ll bring him. At the very least, he could be useful to the party as a clownish Grayson-esque attack dog ahead of the midterms. If the seat’s a lost cause, might as well get what you can from it by handing him a megaphone.

The nuts are in charge of the nut house and appointing their nuttiest friends to any open position; The rampant insanity might just drive Al Qaeda crazy, too!
I don’t think I have enough popcorn for this one.

I’m starting to think the Democrats are the stupid party also when the answer is to veer ever leftward.
2006 was in part about a perceived needed balance to the lie that Bush was too conservative.
Now that people have had 3 years of this nutso-left Congress, they’ve had enough.
Run Ed, run!

A ND senate candidate needs to state that he will sell one of his votes to get a law written into a bill that will allow ND to drill for oil and receive a good percentage of the proceeds directly to ND state controlled accounts.

You’re killin’ me! I’ve tried to watch a few minutes of his show a couple of times. I wound up looking like an Iraqi journalist at a Bush press conference. Thank God my aim was just as bad, or the big screen would have taken a bad hit.

This dipsh!t will be whatever is paying best at the time. Once upon a time, he was a conservative radio talker and entertained the idea of running for Representative as a Republican. He couldn’t compete with true conservatives, so he became a liberal mockingbird.

This Schultz guy is a total whack-job. I listened to his radio show a few times, and he was actually scary nuts. So, you know, he’ll probably win. Al Franken did. Those dem voters, they love pullin’ the lever for crazy.

Can’t regain the Senate in 2010, but 2012 is certainly doable. A lot of very weak Dems were barely elected and reelected in the Democratic wave of 2006 and will be very vulnerable, even in a presidential year. Bob Casey, Jim Webb, and Claire McCaskill are three I can think of right away.

Anything is possible. When they push HC through without wide public support, they will end up on very shaky ground. When all the taxes and premium increases happen immediately and nothing for the money can be seen for years down the road, a whole lot of people are going to be very, very angry.

HC is going to be a huge game changer this year and that could easily show in the polls this November.

I’m starting to think the Democrats are the stupid party also when the answer is to veer ever leftward. jjshaka

I live here in crimson Utah and I work with a couple of folks who are just like that. They are working with a group that is trying to recruit someone to run against Blue Dog Jim Matheson…and they seriously think that they can win with a candidate to the left of Obama…..

ND is full of ‘Scandie Lutherans, just like MN. Hmmmm….All those dumb Norwegian jokes just may have some merit, after all.
Makes me ashamed of my fellow ‘Scandie Lutherans, guess I’ll just start emphasizing the German half of my heritage.

“Exit question: Does the GOP actually have a shot at taking back the Senate? (Exit answer: No.)”

To AP and the Dem apologists here: keep believing this. Keep fervently holding this hope in your heart. Take this straw and make bricks for the walls of your echo chamber. Keep pushing that steaming load call Health Care reform off on an increasingly revolted public.

Eleven months from today, the Dems will be picking their dentures from their bowel movements.

The lucky ones will be Dodd and the other ass-clowns who retired and got the cushy jobs from the Head Turd Bag Pantload.

Too much with the scatological references? Sorry, I was just describing things in terms that Dems will be able to understand.

I hope he does accept and then also Chrissy Matthews decides he needs to run as well, they will both expose the dems ans themselves better than anyone else can. No way Ed could beat Hoevan so it would be a train wreck, we would just have to watch.

Ed Schultz is quite possibly the most vile creature that MSNBC ever recruited from the Violent ward of the local insane asylum. This guy actually at times makes Olbermann look like the model of quiet composure.

Schultz belongs less in front of a camera blasting his gas to the four winds and far less stalking the halls of the Senate and belongs more wrapped tightly in a straitjacket with a Hannibal Lecter-style protective mask over his face and locked in a rubber room where he can bounce himself off the walls all day long.

If Shults can run for Senate in ND, why not Herr Oberrmann for Senate in NY? Let em all run for something and get them the hell off my boob tube..especially off of Sunday Night Football. I’vd had the sound off on that pregame for two years!

Um, Eddy is not a native North Dakotan….he was born and raised in Virginia. He happened to go to college across the river at Moorhead (Minnesota) State College. He did live here for quite a few years as a tv sportscaster and later a (conservative) talk show host. Then he sold his soul to the devil (or rather the three devils; Dorgan, Conrad and Pomeroy) and had his conversion to liberal Democrat. He is a fraud and he no longer even lives in ND… he built a huge home in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. He is not well liked in our state and I seriously hope he actually runs….I’d like nothing better than handing him his arse in say an eighty-twenty per cent defeat….

I’d like nothing better than handing him his arse in say an eighty-twenty per cent defeat….

Upnorthlurkin on January 6, 2010 at 7:02 PM

Bingo. There is no upside for the Democrats, Eeyore. This is either another of the myriad stupid rumors that happen every day (like the one that has Rahm Emanuel running for Senate in Illinois, even though the deadline to register for the primary was over 30 days ago and he’s the President’s Chief of Staff), or it’s someone’s stupid daydream and it won’t happen.

I would love it to death if Schultz pretended to be a sentient human and ran for the Senate. The opportunity to use his ugly, fat, redneck ass to tar Obama, Reid and Peloser would be like Christmas.

Please do this!His oponents commercials could be comedy gold….this guy makes so many lunatic statements(today he said all NBA players should not be able to own guns/check out newsbusters),that the democrat party would probably see a mass migration away from them in that state.

Later this evening, Schultz will be sitting in his livingroom, eating Cheetos, watching video of himself on his own show, and masturbating furiously while repeating aloud, over and over again, “Senator Schultz…Senator Schultz…Senator Schultz…”

I must make a correction to yesterday’s post….apparently Big Eddy’s house didn’t sell and he still owns it here in Fargo, ND. He also owns some hunting acres so unfortunately he probably qualifies as a resident.